Tourist Destination (Tourdes) is committed to the long-term preservation, continuity, integrity, and permanent accessibility of all scholarly content published by the journal. To ensure the availability and preservation of its publications, the journal employs a multi-layered digital preservation and archiving strategy based on internationally recognized digital preservation practices and open archiving protocols.
Tourist Destination supports the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS digital preservation systems to promote the secure, distributed, and long-term preservation of the journal's scholarly content.
These systems enable participating libraries and preservation networks to maintain distributed copies of published journal content, thereby reducing the risk of permanent loss resulting from technical failures, data loss, or interruption of access to the journal website.
The journal's official LOCKSS Publisher Manifest and archiving permission statement are publicly available at:
LOCKSS Publisher Manifest:
https://tourdes.org/lockss-manifest
Participating libraries and preservation networks are authorized to harvest and preserve the journal's published content in accordance with the applicable LOCKSS and CLOCKSS preservation policies.
Tourist Destination provides bibliographic metadata through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) v2.0 framework.
Article metadata is made available in standardized formats, including the Dublin Core (oai_dc) metadata format, allowing academic search engines, repositories, libraries, indexing services, and scholarly aggregators to discover and harvest the journal's records.
The official OAI-PMH endpoint of the journal is:
OAI-PMH Endpoint:
https://tourdes.org/oai
The journal's OAI-PMH infrastructure is intended to facilitate the dissemination and discovery of its bibliographic records through national and international open science, library, and scholarly information systems, including TÜBİTAK HARMAN, OpenAIRE, BASE, CORE, and other compatible services.
To strengthen the long-term availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery of published content, Tourist Destination supports the preservation of its publications through reliable national and international open science repositories.
Published articles and, where applicable, their full-text files may be deposited in TÜBİTAK Aperta, Türkiye's national open science repository infrastructure. Where technically available, deposition and metadata transfer may be supported through automated systems and API-based integration.
Tourist Destination supports the preservation and dissemination of its scholarly publications through Zenodo, the open research repository operated by CERN.
Where deposited, journal publications are associated with persistent repository records and stable URLs to facilitate long-term discovery and access.
The journal also supports the long-term preservation of its publicly accessible web content through web archiving services such as the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine.
Published issues, journal webpages, article pages, and publicly accessible full-text files may be captured and preserved by these services in accordance with their respective archiving policies and technical capabilities.
Tourist Destination supports Green Open Access and author self-archiving practices.
Authors are permitted to deposit and make their published articles available through:
Unless otherwise stated for a specific article or publication, authors may deposit the Publisher's Version / Version of Record (final published PDF) immediately after publication, without an embargo period.
Authors who self-archive their publications are required to provide appropriate bibliographic attribution to the original publication. The archived version should include, where applicable:
Tourist Destination considers digital preservation an essential component of responsible scholarly publishing. The journal aims to maintain the authenticity, integrity, accessibility, and long-term availability of its published scholarly record.
The journal may adopt additional preservation services, repositories, or technological solutions when necessary to strengthen the long-term preservation and accessibility of its content.
Digital preservation arrangements may be reviewed and updated in response to technological developments, changes in repository services, or evolving international standards and best practices in scholarly publishing.
